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  2. Hamza - Wikipedia

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    The hamza above ya ئ ‎ is known as a "housed hamzah" (Malay: hamzah berumah), and is most commonly used in Arabic loanwords. It is also used for words which repeat or combine "i" and "é" vowels like چميئيه ‎ (cemeeh meaning "taunt") and for denoting a glottal stop in the middle of a word after a consonant such as ...

  3. Arabic name - Wikipedia

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    However, not all Arab countries use the name in its full length, but conventionally use two- and three-word names, and sometimes four-word names in official or legal matters. Thus the first name is the personal name, the middle name is the father's name and the last name is the father's family name.

  4. List of English words of Arabic origin (K–M) - Wikipedia

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    Most dictionaries say the Italian word came from medieval native Italian mezzo meaning "middle", from a classical Latin word meaning "middle". But the mizzen sail does not have semantic concordance with "middle". The alternative is: "It is possible that the Italian word... is really adopted from Arabic ميزان mīzān = "balance".

  5. Wasla - Wikipedia

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    The waṣla (Arabic: ‏ وَصْلَة ‎, lit. 'an instance of connection') or hamzatu l-waṣli ( هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ , ' hamza of connection') is a variant of the letter hamza ( ء ) resembling part of the letter ṣād ( ص ) that is sometimes placed over the letter ʾalif at the beginning of the word ( ٱ ).

  6. Category:Arabic-language masculine given names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Arabic-language masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 760 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. List of English words of Arabic origin (N–S) - Wikipedia

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    In the late medieval period sumac became the predominant name in Latin. The Arabic name is found in Latin starting in the 10th century [13] and as such it is one of the earliest loanwords on this list. [57] From the Latin, the word is in late medieval English medical books spelled sumac. [18] [58] Swahili

  8. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.

  9. List of English words of Arabic origin (A–B) - Wikipedia

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    Arabic word came from Sanskrit nili = "indigo". The indigo dye originally came from tropical India. From medieval Arabic, anil became the usual word for indigo in Portuguese and Spanish. [44] Indigo dye was uncommon throughout Europe until the 16th century; history of indigo dye. In English anil is a natural indigo dye or the tropical American ...